Semantic Web

Some technology and concepts gathered during BCB5.

Harish shared and gave direction to the discussion.

Freebase, an “open, shared database of the world’s knowledge” developed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

http://openid.net/
is unified digital identity

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess for querying in SPARQL the sematic assets on wikipedia.

Possibility of ontology describing atleast part of natural language

Tracing back in history

  1. unicode -> xml -> rdf -> OWL
  2. data seperated from presentation
  3. that will be tagged
  4. now using microformats
  5. to allow for natural language subject predicate based queries

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